BRAVE: A Bryan Breeding Story (B5) [Completed]

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The ride back to Valley Grove Apartments was silent. Nothing but the sound of the air conditioner was available to the ear. I leaned up against the door and looked out of it, trying to keep from breaking down again. I was so glad to have saved my sister today that I just couldn't help but cry.

Paige looked at me when she wasn't paying attention to what was in front of her. She wanted so bad to say something, to comfort me but she couldn't come up with the words, I know.

Once we made it to the apartment, Paige parked her mother's car. We got up and walked quietly up the stairs to my place. I pulled out the key and unlocked the door as we went inside. I closed the door behind us and walked over to the couch that was now covered in plastic.

"Bryan, I'm so proud of you." She finally said. "You're stronger than I thought! I just wished you would've opened up more."

"I know Paige, I know.."

"Then why didn't you?"

"You know opening up isn't the easiest thing in the world for someone like me."

"Bryan,"

"What Paige?"

She looked down and then back up at me. She started crying. "Paige why are you crying?"

"Because," she paused. "I don't know what I would have done if something would've happened to you in there and.." She paused again," What I'm trying to say is that I don't care if any girl ever likes you. I like you. I love you, I really do."

I pulled her into a hug. "Paige, I love you too." I pulled away from her and held her hands. "I don't want you to worry about me Paige. I'm going to be okay. I always will. Just continue to go to school and take care of my sister until I find out what's going to happen to her."

She looked at me with her big brown eyes. "I got you Bryan... And I think it's time I be honest with you."

"Um, okay."

"When you overheard Carnell and I talking, it was about me trying out for cheerleading." She confessed.

I laughed. "What? But you hate cheerleaders.."

"Yeah," she turned away from me. "But Carnell and I were dating and he wanted me to do it so I did. I would have made if I wouldn't have been suspended so much." She looked back at me to see my expression then held her head down.

I was disgusted. "You were dating... Carnell?"

"Yeah," she nodded. Still not looking at me.

"And you're just now telling me?"

"I know it sounds bad but --"

"But what? That is the stupidest thing you've done Paige! Why would you even want to date him? Especially when you know how he was treating me!" I yelled. I begin to get upset and I know I ticked her off too.

"Let's not talk about being stupid Bryan. You've made quite the decisions in these last few months."

I didn't even care that she was arguing. I couldn't even look at her. There was silence that now filled the room because I didn't respond to her foolish response.

"I'm not even going to sit here and express myself to you when I know you're not listening." She got all up in my face. "I'm tired of this Bryan. I'm tired of the lying, crying and worrying about you. It's obvious that you don't even care about what I go through with you."

"I've had a lot of people lie on me. I just didn't expect my best friend to be the one to lie to me." I told her.

She wiped the tears from her eyes. "Bryan I'm sorry for everything that happened to you. I really am. I'm sorry that you spent majority of your life dwelling on it and living like this. But you gotta let me in.. You have to let me be here for you."

I shook my head. With all the shit that's going on in my life, you'd think she would've saved this whack ass news for another day. "Right now, I just want to be alone."

She nodded. I hated to see her upset but I needed some time to think. She hugged me and I couldn't even move my arms to hug her back. She stormed out of my apartment after that.

I sat down and rubbed my head as I thought over today's events. I couldn't believe that Ronald was actually going to rape Bailey, his daughter. His own flesh and blood. It's sickening. The jail he was in must've been horrible to have him come back out with his mind still corrupted like that. I just thank God that I was there in time and I didn't have to come there and find her hurt. Because if my mother would've found her like that, she would've cleaned her up and just told her not to mention it to anybody ever. And she'd have to live with those memories for the rest of her life. Which isn't healthy at all.

I begin to think about what I needed to do next.. I needed to buy some transportation. Buy a car then search for a job. With all of this I could work on seeing how to get Bailey in my custody. Certainly it would be a battle but with both of my parents in jail, I knew they would turn to foster care and that's not where I needed my sister to go. Thing is, they'd try to send me too and we don't have anymore relatives around here. I needed her here with me. So that's what I would fight for.